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Appreciated indeed by the Amerika Esperantistaro (Aro: suffix meaning group of) was your article in the Aug. 15 issue of TIME. Such a sympathetic and accurate account of the origin and progress of Esperanto and its aims is a welcome change from the usually cynical, often hostile, stories and articles in the press...
...Gloro there are 18 suffix forms to denote different parts of speech, verb tenses, case endings. There are no other rules of grammar. It looks and sounds even more like a hodge-podge of Latin, Italian and Spanish than that more famed lingua franca, Esperanto, which it considerably resembles. Its roots were chosen with great care, however, from various languages, especially English. Dr. Talmey particularly tried to incorporate those national words which have no one-word equivalents in other languages and are therefore frequently borrowed, becoming quasi-international. In English such words are snob, fad, aloof, to glance, to bluff...
...slightly larger Hull 552. Still left is a gap in its fleet which Cunard last week announced will be filled with eight 30,000-to-40,000-ton motorships of an improved Georgic type, each to be given names ending in the traditional Cunard ia. The White Star ic suffix is being abandoned...
...Hindu name, she explained, comes from Mira, a Rajput Princess who gave up her position to become a worshipper of Krishna, and Bai a feminine suffix. She is also called Mirabehn, which means Sister Mira...
Usually exhibiting "microphilic" symptoms, TIME editors left me harassed by the question: 'Why the sneezing, suffix escu attached to Rumanian names...